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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) His father.
(b) Death.
(c) Violence.
(d) Missing sex organs.

2. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?
(a) Wrong.
(b) Deficient.
(c) Flawed.
(d) Perfect.

3. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?
(a) Art.
(b) Language.
(c) Feeling.
(d) Experience.

4. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?
(a) A metaphor.
(b) A necessary stage in natural selection.
(c) A stage in childhood development.
(d) A literary device.

5. According to Freud's Oedipal Triangle model, people constantly seek fulfillment and self-realization through some other object, referred to as what?
(a) The Other.
(b) The Substitute.
(c) The Nothing.
(d) The Something.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva says a person relates to his or her world through what?

2. Freud believed his Oedipus complex produces a kind of mental archetype for what?

3. What state does Freud say a subject will be sent into when the repressed desire for one's mother's body breaks out of its repression?

4. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject is created from repressing what?

5. Who does Kristeva say is not directly involved when a child is weaned from his mother's breast?

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